General Methods of Teaching

Assignment-4

Submitted by:
M.Muneeb-ur-Rehman
Submitted to:
Ma’am Farah Naz
Roll Number:
bsf1900027
BFA hons. 2nd semester (2019_23)
Topic: Assigned Questions Answers

University of Education
Lower Mall Campus, Lahore
 Question 1. What future teachers actually need to learn?

Here are five of those skills that every future teacher will need:

1. Strong subject knowledge:

Great teachers have always mixed a passion for and deep understanding of the subjects they are

teaching. This becomes even more critical in classrooms equipped with computers and internet

search engines, to help pupils understand and interpret the information they are accessing.

But a teacher isn’t just someone who can recite facts and rules. They must be someone who

knows a subject well enough to understand what students can discover for themselves and what

they need help with, enabling them to reach a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

For Example:

A teacher having his/her full grip on the subject can easily deliver the message and information

to the students and can easily resolve the queries of his/her students. He/she will always be

they’re for his/her students to answer their questions only if he/she has strong subject knowledge.

2. Being a facilitator:

The role of teacher as facilitator is well established in many developed education systems.

Facilitating learning is not only important to encourage young people to be lifelong learners. It is

also vital for developing the skills that will make students successful at work.

• The “three Rs” of reading, writing and arithmetic, schools should be equipping students

with the four Cs of critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity.

 • These skills’ importance is likely growing as mundane, repetitive tasks are removed by

automation. These are skills that cannot always easily be taught

• Teachers facilitating students’ learning of them through methods such as group projects

can help find solutions for real-world problems.

For Example:

A facilitating teacher will always be admired by students. As he is producing ease for his

students by providing them notes, pdf files, YouTube videos, projects, researches and

experimentations. Students will more likely to like the facilitating teacher and he will be more

successful.

3. Strong social skills:

Being successful in the 21st century workplace is likely to mean mastering human skills such as

communication and collaboration that cannot be replicated by machines, so it follows that

teachers of futures will need to be experts at encouraging the social aspects of learning.

Social skills are already the traits that are most desired by many employers.

• The ability to work in a team structure.

• The ability to make decisions and solve problems.

• And the ability to communicate verbally with people inside and outside an organization.

For Example:

In this very advance era, the future teacher must be very social and active with great

communication skills. He should also have many social links and large social circles. As he has

to communicate with the students and their parents so social skills are must. He should make
decisions immediately without any confusion. That type of personality will be a successful future

teacher.

4. External focus:

To develop the desired traits and skills, teachers are going to need to become more focused on

learning outside school walls.

A key part of this is likely to be applying learning to “real-world situations”, so that students

understand the what happens in the workplace often needs to go beyond what happens in many

academic settings.

For example:

Pakistan-based teacher Kiran Bir Yahya, a 2015 top 10 finalist of the Global Teacher Prize,

sought a new way of teaching that would enable her pupils to explore the world creatively. She

developed a simplified Design Thinking approach that leads students to understand

empathetically rather than just intellectually, and puts academic learning into a real-world

context.

5. Data analysis:

Technology is already helping many in the business world to monitor and improve their

corporate performance by gathering better and more in-depth data, and its importance in

education is increasing.

For example:

One report estimated global spend on EdTech will be more than $19 billion by 2019.
Just like businesses, teachers will need to use data analysis to spot students having difficulties

and help them to achieve their potential.

As more and more of children’s learning – be this essays or tests – are delivered online, teachers

are going to be faced with an ever-growing stream of student performance data and they will

need to become adept at using tools to analyses this information.

Question 2. Compare any two traditional and innovative

methods of teaching?

Traditional Methods of Teaching: Innovative Methods of Teaching:

• When a teacher directs students to learn • Approaches of teaching which involves a

through memorization and recitation more interacting, student-based of

techniques thereby not developing their teaching. Here, the students learn

critical thinking problem solving and through group participation are called

decision-making skills is called Innovative approach of teaching.

Traditional Method of Teaching.

These are some Traditional Methods: These are some Innovative Methods:

➢ Lecture Method ➢ Activity Method

➢ Textbook Method ➢ Project Method

 Lecture method: Activity Method:

• Lecture method of teaching is the oldest • It is an innovative method of teaching

teaching method applied in educational through activity in which the students

institution. participate rigorously and bring about

efficient learning experiences.

• In this method only the teacher talks, • It is a child-centered approach. It is a

the students are passive listeners and method in which child is actively

they do not take any active part. involved in participating mentally and

physically. Learning by doing is the

main focus of this method.

• Using of this method exclude the using • The method promotes better

of any equipment or Lab. understanding of a lesson among

students as they learn the lesson by

practicing the task themselves.

• It is quit economical method. • It is an expensive method.

• In this method there is no place for • The most important feature of activity

learning by doing based instruction is learning by doing.

• Attention level is not the same while • Attention level is same for all because

student listening the lecture. every student is performing the task by

its own.
 Textbook Method Project Method

• The most traditional method of • Project method is one of the modern

teaching in which teacher is centered type of method of teaching in which,

and students are passive. They use the students point of view is given

textbooks, handouts, workbooks. importance. Students learn through

making projects etc.

• The textbook/workbook approach • This method considers individual’s

doesn’t take into consideration learning style and fulfills the needs of

children’s individual learning style or child.

their interests.

• Text books doesn’t encourage • Project method broadens students

original, independent thinking as mind and make them think

much as non-traditional approaches. independently and promotes critical

thinking.

• Students use a textbook to learn facts • The project cannot be planned for all

and methods about a certain subject. It subjects and whole subject matter

can be use in any type of subject and cannot be taught by this strategy.

can easily cover all the subject matter.

• It is economical than project matter as • It is not economical from the point of

books are no more costly than material view of time and cost.

use in projects.
Question 3. Design a brilliant and inspirational lesson plan of any topic.

Lecturer’s name: Day:

M.Muneeb-ur-Rehman Tuesday

Course: Date:

Biology-1 02-06-2020

Chapter/Unit: 4 (Kingdom Animalia) Duration: 2 hours

Topic:

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Aims of lesson:

To develop a deep understanding about the Vertebrates and Invertebrates animals of

Animal kingdom along with their anatomy, histology and organ functions.

Lesson objectives: Students will be able to…

1. To understand the animal kingdom.

2. To understand the taxonomic position of vertebrates and invertebrates.

3. To understand the general characteristics of animals belonging to vertebrates and

invertebrates.

4. To understand the body organization of phylum from vertebrates and

invertebrates.

5. To understand the origin and evolutionary relationship of different phylum from

vertebrates and invertebrates.

Learning outcomes

1. Student should be able to describe unique characters of vertebrates and

invertebrates.

2. Student should be able to recognize life functions and diversity of vertebrates

and invertebrates.

3. To recognize the ecological role of phylum vertebrates and invertebrates.

Methods used for students understanding:

Lecture method leading to discussion and Lab work including examination of different

sterilized and living vertebrates and invertebrates’ animals in the college laboratory.

Resources:

Whiteboard pens, flip paper, register, 4 handouts, 1 worksheet, 2 lesson plan proformas

per person, PowerPoint presentation & memory stick, Copy of PowerPoint as handout,

computer & projector to be booked, assignment handout and Biology-1 Punjab textbook.

Assessment (how learning will be recognized)

Lesson planning in class; tutor observation; draft lesson plan produced, class quiz and

viva.

Classwork Activity:

Time Content & Teacher Activity Student Activity Resource

• Recap on aims & • Explain to each other White board, slides

00:00 objectives- put into pairs. the difference and handouts

- • Describing the outcomes between aims &

00:30 of the course. objectives & give an

min example of each

linked to their subject

• Watching & listening

00:30 • Introduction to • Listening & watching White board, slides

- Vertebrates and & answering and handouts

01:00 invertebrates. questions

hour • Their Physical

characteristics.

• Study of anatomy and • Listening & White board, slides

01:00 histology of Some watching & and handouts

- vertebrates and answering questions

01:30 invertebrates. Laboratory material,

hour • Dissection of a • Drawing observed Dissected animal

Vertebrate to observe diagrams of the

organs and other specimen dissected a

systems in the body. labelling them

(Lab work)
 01:30 • Go through the all lecture • Listening & watching White board, slides

- giving overview and & answering and handouts

1:45 asking if anyone have questions

hour any query.

1:45 • General feedback about • Listening, Answering Feedback Performa

- the lesson and filling feedback

2:00 Performa

hour

Homework/assignments set: Write a brief note on Hand in date:

Vertebrates and invertebrates with examples and

Diagrams. 05-06-2020

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